Improvement in clothes-driers



A W. PHILLIPS.

Improvement in Clothes Briers.- NO. 128,323, Patentedlune 25,1872.

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ANSON-W. PHILLIPS, or FAIRFIELD, NEW YORK.

v IMPROVEMENT IN CLOIHES-DRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,323, dated J une 25, 1872.

Specification describing a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Briers, invented by ANSON WJPHILLIPS, of Fairfield, in the county of Herkimer and State of New York.

Figure l is a side view of my improved clothes-bars, shown as attached to a pedestal, and parts being broken away to show the construction. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side view of a pair of brackets for pivoting the clothes-drier to a wall. Fig. 4 is a top view of the lower bracket.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre-' sponding parts.

My invention has forits object to furnish an improved clothes bar or drier, simple in construction, inexpensive in manufacture, and convenient in use, and which shall be so constructed that it may be conveniently and compac'tly folded up out of the way, even without taking down the clothes; and it consists in the construction and combination of the bars, socket-sleeves, and rod with each other, as hereinafter more fully described.

A are wooden bars, upon which the clothes to be dried are hung. The inner ends of the bars A are inserted in metallic sockets B, which have sleeves 0 formed upon their other ends to receive and fit upon the iron rod D, said sleeves being made of such a length as to support the bars A at a suitable distance apart. The sleeve-socket (l B may be secured upon the rod D by pins passed through the said rod at the outer ends of the outer sockets, as shown in Fig. 1. The ends of the rod D may be inserted in brackets E attached to the wall, door-casing, window-casin g, or other suitable support. This construction enables the arms or bars A, when not required for use, to be turned against the wall so as to be out of the way. The bars A may be turned against-the wall, even when the clothes are hanging upon them, so as to be out of the 'way and so that the clothes may be taken down when convenient. The rod D is inserted in the standard F of a pedestal, F G H. The lower end of the standard F is pivoted to the center of the cross-bar G, the ends of which project downward so as to leave a space beneath it for the cross-bar H, which is also pivoted at its center to the cross-bar G and standard F. This construction enables the cross-bar H, when the pedestal is not required for use, to be turned parallel with the crossbar G, for convenience of storage.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A pedestal, consisting of hollow standard F, pivoted at bottom to cross-bars G H, in combination with rod D, sockets G and B, and arms A, as and for the purpose described.

ANSON- W. PHILLIPS.

Witnesses F. A. MOREY, J. M. HALL. 

